Tema: dependencies
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Managing PostgreSQL extensions: installing, versioning, updating and dumping them
An extension packages SQL objects and often a shared library under one name with a control file and versioned scripts; CREATE EXTENSION installs it per database, ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE applies the author's update scripts, and pg_dump emits only the CREATE EXTENSION line. Keep the installed files, the catalog version and the loaded library in step, especially across package upgrades and pg_upgrade.
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Dependency confusion: when a public package shadows a private one
If a build resolves package names across a private index and a public one, an attacker who publishes the private name publicly with a higher version can get their code installed; pip's documentation calls --extra-index-url for private packages unsafe for exactly this reason. Defences are namespaces bound to one registry, a single proxying index, hash pinning and claiming names.
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Cargo, crates and editions: how a Rust project is built and versioned
Cargo builds a crate from Cargo.toml, resolves dependencies with SemVer-compatible ranges into Cargo.lock, and can include two incompatible major versions of one crate in a single build. Editions are per-crate, opt-in language versions that interoperate, so upgrading a crate's edition never forces its dependents to follow.
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Maven versus Gradle: what a newcomer needs to build someone else's JVM project
Maven describes a project declaratively in pom.xml and runs fixed lifecycle phases (validate, compile, test, package, verify, install, deploy) with plugin goals bound to them; Gradle runs a graph of tasks configured by build.gradle(.kts) scripts and plugins. Both resolve transitive dependencies but with different conflict rules (Maven: nearest definition; Gradle: highest version), and both ship a wrapper script that pins the build tool version.
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Dependency hygiene and software supply-chain checks
Know what you depend on, pin and verify it, watch for known vulnerabilities, and build from trusted sources; SLSA levels, OpenSSF Scorecard and hash-checked installs give concrete steps.
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Dependency order with graph traversal: BFS, DFS and topological sort
Model dependencies as a directed graph, use breadth-first or depth-first traversal to find everything affected by a change, and Kahn's algorithm or DFS post-order to produce a build or migration order that reports cycles instead of hiding them; graphlib and tsort implement the sort.
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Software bills of materials with SPDX and CycloneDX
An SBOM is a machine-readable inventory of the components in a software artifact; SPDX and CycloneDX are the two widely used formats, and generating one per release supports vulnerability matching and licence review.
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Dependency upgrade cadence: batching, grouping and what to merge at once
Update bots open one pull request per dependency unless configured otherwise; a sustainable cadence merges security fixes as they arrive, batches patch and minor updates into a scheduled group, and treats major versions as planned work. Dependabot and Renovate both document scheduling and grouping, and Renovate's guide names the cost of grouping: a failing group blocks all of its members.
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Software-Stücklisten (SBOM): das Inventar der eigenen Lieferkette
Eine Software-Stückliste zählt maschinenlesbar auf, welche Komponenten in welcher Version in einem gelieferten Artefakt stecken. SPDX (ISO/IEC 5962:2021) und CycloneDX (OWASP) sind die verbreiteten Formate; erzeugt wird sie pro Release aus dem gebauten Artefakt, daneben abgelegt und zum Abgleich mit Schwachstellenmeldungen und Lizenzpflichten genutzt. Zusammen mit Herkunftsnachweisen (SLSA) macht sie die Lieferkette prüfbar.
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Which checks on automated dependency-update pull requests have caught a malicious or broken release, and which only add noise?
Open question: automated update pull requests arrive daily and are often merged on green CI; the npm documentation describes provenance attestations that npm audit signatures can verify, but which checks (provenance, unpacked diff review, install-script inspection, waiting periods, lockfile diffs) have a record of catching a compromised or broken release?
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Pinning NuGet dependencies: PackageReference, central package management and packages.lock.json
NuGet resolves the lowest applicable version of each package at restore time, so a restore can drift when new versions or floating ranges appear; a repeatable build declares versions once in Directory.Packages.props, enables RestorePackagesWithLockFile so packages.lock.json records the full closure, commits the lock file for applications, and restores with --locked-mode in CI.
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Packaging a Python project with pyproject.toml
pyproject.toml declares build system, metadata and dependencies in one standard file (PEP 517/518/621); with it, any compliant tool can build, install and lock the project without setup.py.
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Virtual environments: one interpreter state per project
A virtual environment is a private site-packages tied to an interpreter; creating one per project prevents version conflicts and makes the dependency set reproducible and disposable.
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Reproducible builds and pinned dependencies
A build is reproducible when the same source and build environment produce bit-for-bit identical output; lockfiles with hashes, pinned base images and fixed timestamps are the practical steps toward it.
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Go modules: go.mod, go.sum and the major version suffix
A Go module is a versioned tree of packages described by go.mod; the go command picks dependency versions with minimal version selection, verifies downloads against go.sum, and requires a /v2-style suffix in the module path for every major version above 1, so incompatible versions have different import paths.
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Submodules, subtrees or vendoring: three ways to include another repository
A submodule records a pointer (gitlink) to a commit of another repository and needs extra commands from every user; git subtree copies the other project's files and optionally its history into a subdirectory that behaves like normal files; plain vendoring copies files and records the upstream version by hand. Choose by how often the dependency changes and who must be able to clone.
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